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Experts interviewed by the daily mostly side with Prosecutor General and agree that the government in its current form will never be able to truly eradicate corruption - only systemic overhaul will. According to a study performed by research holding...
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In the article "A rebellion Putin can't laugh off", he in particularly notes: "The videos feature some of Russia's most famous actors, writers, directors, musicians and other VIPs, all united by the heartfelt slogan: "Why I am voting for Putin". Violist...
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The US wants to have the system ready by 2020. Under President George W Bush, Washington was planning to set up the major parts of the system in Poland and the Czech Republic, but faced Russia’s serious objection. VG/MA/HJL Russian Prime Minister...
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The group, known for their scandal-courting behavior, entitled the action “a punk prayer: Mother of God, drive (PM Vladimir) Putin away,” as they wrote in their Twitter feed. Pussy Riot (who used pretty unholy language in their lyrics) also stated that...
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The Russian presidential elections are slated to be on March 4th. However, early voting has already started in some remote regions of the country. What does this early voting look like? Have there been any implementation of some of the promised voting...
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Han er alt annet en fornøyd med livet i Jaroslavl. Livet i byen kan ifølge ham sammenlignes med noe som på norsk best kan oversettes som å leve i et skikkelig hull. Selv om arbeiderklassen fortsatt ventes å stemme på Vladimir Putin, melder blant annet...
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You tell me, how did two ordinary women, with common enough backgrounds – one a minor public servant, the other a school principal – have the guts to stand up to the regime? Irina Kolpakova, the head of a polling station in Samara, some 1,000...
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"I'll tell you more, not in the main, but only thanks to Vladimir Putin," said the general, when asked whether he agrees with the fact that the situation in Chechnya has stabilized mainly due to the determination of Vladimir Putin. According to him, in...
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(RIA Novosti / Alexsey Druginyn) The recent appointment of Michael McFaul as US ambassador to Russia was seen by many as Washington showing favor toward the opposition. In a frank conversation with RT McFaul asserted that the US does not finance either...
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Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin promised hefty pay raises on Tuesday to police officers in Moscow, where opposition forces have been planning additional political protests before the presidential election on March 4. Mr. Putin, a former president, is...
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The bill initiators do not conceal that it is mainly aimed against Russians buying houses in Finnish border regions. Eighty percent of Finns support restriction of Russian investors’ rights.
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Putin has been successful in stoking up fear of the Americans. The respected Levada Center published a poll showing a significant increase in the percentage of Russians who fear for their security. Within a year, the number of those who considered a...
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*Khodorkovsky Russia today is a so-called "managed democracy." Flawed a system as democracy is, though, it's something you either live in or don't — put a qualifier on the term, and it becomes something else. This particular something else is a nation...
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Putin may be renowned across the world as something of an alpha-male, but a new book from Russian journalist Masha Gessen reveals one side of his personality that seems pretty awkward. Putin and his wife in 2007, Putin’s own descriptions of his romances...
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Many in the West, certainly German director Tuschi, suspect that the embezzlement and tax-evasion charges against Khodorkovsky have been manufactured by Vladimir Putin's administration to silence the threat that the businessman posed to the ruling party.
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Many voters are suspicious of A Just Russia’s Mironov, a 59-year-old engineer from St Petersburg , because of his previous associations with Putin. When he stood for the presidency in 2004 his candidacy was not regarded as serious not least because of...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with business owners from the Altai region, in the city of Barnaul. Barnaul - Vladimir Putin sought to bolster his authority ahead of a March presidential election on Tuesday by promising hefty pay...
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The US meanwhile softened its stance on arming the opposition. Demonstrators in Istanbul, Turkey, last week protesting against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad shout anti-Russia slogans, as one of them holds pictures of Russia's President Dmitry...
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Unlike Westerners who simply took it for granted that Assad must go, Ayatollah Khamenei and Vladimir Putin have remembered an ironclad rule of history: tyrants fall when they lose their taste for spilling their people’s blood, not when they loosen the...
About Vladimir Putin
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин?·i Russian pronunciation: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the... Full Article
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